Good Day! Being recipients of God’s blessings surely enhances our “ora et labora.” Keep them up, and God bless you! F. Philip, OSB The Blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanses our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. (first reading) “It is in His Son and through His Son, that God pours down from Heaven upon our souls all divine blessings of grace that make us live as children worthy of this Heavenly Father. All graces come to us through Jesus, and God loves us in the measure in which we love His Son Jesus and believe in Him. Our Lord Himself tells us these consoling words: “The ‘Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God.” When the Father sees a soul full of love for His Son, He showers His most abundant blessings upon it.” (With Christ, Marmion p. 107) So it is that Christ’s relatives must have come around to realize the excellence of His way, which fulfilled and replaced the way of the Old Law. They meant well in their first reaction to what seemed to be madness on the part of Christ, but they did not seize Him, and eventually must have come around to realizing He is God.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:26:44 +0000